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President Most Revd Trevor Huddleston CR Vice Presidents Sir Hugh Casson KCVO Jack Jones CH Joan Lestor MP Rt Hon David Steel MP Sponsors Merle Amory Ray Buckton Julie Christie Jerry Dammers Basil Davidson Professor Dorothy Hodgkin OM Bill Morris Dafydd Elis Thomas MP Pauline Webb Rt Revd Wilfred Wood The Anti-Apartheid Movement in Consultative Status withe Economic and Social Council :COSOC of the United Nations Anti -Apartheid Movement 13 Mandela Street London NW10DW Tel01-3877966 Facsimile 01-388 0173 Rt. Hon. Mrs Margaret Thatcher MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London S.W.1. Nelson Mandela, but of all political prisoners; the lifting of the State of Emergency and the unbanning of the ANC and other organisations. Far from responding to meeting these pre- conditions, the apartheid regime is intensifying its repression in all these areas. Thus your actions are actually undermining the prospect of securing a process of genuine negotiations because you are encouraging Pretoria to believe that it does not have to meet these pre-conditions. Indeed, you are helping De Klerk achieve the stated objective of this visit, namely to end South Africa's isolation. Your meeting with F.W. de Klerk will be no different in its outcome from that you had with P.W. Botha, who interpreted his visit to Europe in 1984 as a licence to intensify his Party's policies of repression and destabilisation, which have caused havoc and misery across Southern Africa. F.W. de Klerk will come to the same conclusion unless he is convinced that South Africa will face unprecedented international action until he agrees to abandon apartheid and start a process of genuine negotiations. This is why now is the time for the international community to impose a programme of comprehensive sanctions against apartheid South Africa. International pressure together with the struggle of the people of Namibia has opened up the prospect of Namibia's independence. It is the combination of the struggle of the people of South Africa and international sanctions which will finally rid Africa and the world of the evil of apartheid. Yours sincerely, + Trevor Huddleston CR Robert Hughes MP President Chairman